26o BIRD LIFE GLIMPSES 



ever do stay with us during the winter, instead of 

 migrating, and, in regard to this. White offers some 

 evidence. What he deserves except praise for so 

 doing I cannot, for the life of me, see, but what 

 he gets — from a good many quarters, at any rate 

 — is a sort of dull, pompous, patronising taking to 

 task — " Good boy, but mustn't do that." 



